It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.